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Are you related to anyone famous??!!

  • 13-03-2009 12:21pm
    #1
    Mindthegap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Would love to know if anyone's family tree shows they're related to a Hollywood starlet! Ever try contacting them to say tell them about their Irish roots?


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  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Not quite Hollywood, but I'm related to the late Dermot Morgan.


  • #3
    kronsington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭kronsington


    barbra mcmahon (who used to present head to toe on rte) is a cousin of mine

    beat that!


  • #4
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Enya


  • #5
    smileysurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭smileysurfer


    Colin Farrell


  • #6
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    A well known English premership footballer's mum, is married to my father in laws half brother . Nearly as far from related as one can get . :p


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  • #7
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Johhny Cash is a relative of mine,apparantly.
    I think it was my mother's great aunt is his mother.


  • #8
    Brown.Eyed.Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Brown.Eyed.Girl


    Sharon Shannon is my mam's cousin.


  • #9
    Enii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,546 ✭✭✭Enii


    I know Wendy from TransvisionVamp's cousin.....


  • #10
    wannabepr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭wannabepr


    Sean_K wrote: »
    Not quite Hollywood, but I'm related to the late Dermot Morgan.
    The Late *Great* Dermot Morgan:D:D


  • #11
    El Che
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭El Che


    1. John Moloney TD, Minister of State with Responsibility for Disabilities and Mental Health.
    2. Lar Bradey, Sinn Fein TD for Leix-Offaly in 1923 and former O/C of Laois IRA during the War of Independence and one of those who fired the first shots of 1916.


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  • #12
    SilverSparkle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭SilverSparkle


    George Harrison


  • #13
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Maura Laverty was my Grand-Aunt which means by default, her daughter, the artist Barry Castle was my cousin.

    175.jpg


  • #14
    tipptipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭tipptipp


    Jesus Christ


  • #15
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Not really famous, but my father's first cousin is a retired High Court judge from LA, and his name was frequently in the paper for hearing cases of the rich and famous.


  • #16
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭acontadino


    charles de gaule


  • #17
    m83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭m83


    Eddie Irvine, second cousin


  • #18
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Adam and Eve


  • #19
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    now that'd be telling :eek:


  • #20
    jimbellows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭jimbellows


    I wouldnt want to be related to a celebrity... they mostly suck and are attention cravers

    clear.gif


  • #21
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Paul O'Connell

    Also, I've got an uncle who was famous for a while because apparantly
    he beat up some R.O.I. soccer player.

    Nothing else apart from a cousin who once featured on Crimeline...


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  • #22
    Kieo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 441 ✭✭Kieo


    am a direct relative of god!:o


  • #23
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    My cousin is a pretty famous Elvis impersonator. :)

    I rock.


  • #24
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Paul Costello the designer. I think the boyf is distantly related to Walt Disney!


  • #25
    Heisenberg.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭Heisenberg.


    This post has been deleted.


  • #26
    rebelbabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭rebelbabe


    I wouldnt say hes famous but my uncle is pretty well known for being a kerryman (he denies that bit) who while playing for Cork back in the day helped Cork beat Kerry in a Munster Final


  • #27
    Love2love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    No.... I'm a nobody!

    But the other half is related to the late Princess Grace of Monaco.


  • #28
    MelonieHead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭MelonieHead


    Apparently

    jen.jpgjenn-1.jpg

    is my third cousin. Her name is Jennifer James and she used to be in Coronation Street. I've never met her but my granny is pretty sure.


  • #29
    happybunny247
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭happybunny247


    micheal jackson, shea given, ruby walsh and bono, lien bout one or 2 or more.


  • #30
    Kenmare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Kenmare


    Im related to Adam and Eve :)


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  • #31
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Scien wrote: »
    Liam Ó Maonlaí

    For some reason I know quite a few people that are related to him. He must have a lot of cousins!


  • #32
    Serena08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Serena08


    Im not but growing up as a child I used to pretend that Judy Garland was my aunt :D:D I nearly had myself convinced it was true LOL


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